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NVIDIA Networking (formerly Mellanox) is the market leader in high-speed network connectivity, with its innovative products being the number one choice for AI, HPC and other low-latency, high-bandwidth workloads.

Scan is an NVIDIA Elite Partner, working closely with NVIDIA to offer the complete range of products, which are also the key ingredient of our award-winning 3XS Systems servers and workstations.

The NVIDIA LinkX product family of transceivers provides a complete line of Ethernet and InfiniBand products for Cloud, HPC, Enterprise, telco, storage, AI and datacentre applications. LinkX transceivers are used to link top-of-rack switches downwards to SmartNICs, SuperNICs and DPUs in servers and storage appliances and / or upwards in switch-to-switch applications throughout the network infrastructure.

A storage controller is a hardware device used to manage HDDs or SSDs in a server or storage array. While all motherboards include a basic storage controller built into the chipset, it is commonplace to add a third party storage controller if you need extra capacity or want to configure them in RAID to protect data.

A Host Bus Adapter (HBA) is an expansion card that plugs into a PCIe slot on the system’s motherboard and provides fast, reliable communication between the host system and the storage devices. HBAs can reliably connect hundreds or even thousands of HDDs, SSDs and even tape devices to the host system, making them ideal for cost-sensitive backup solutions or high-performance software defined storage (SDS) configurations.

These adaptors enable you to install SSDs in different ways, for example enabling you mount M.2 drives in a PCIe slot.

NVIDIA Networking (formerly Mellanox) is the market leader in high-speed network connectivity, with its innovative products being the number one choice for AI, HPC and other low-latency, high-bandwidth workloads.

Scan is an NVIDIA Elite Partner, working closely with NVIDIA to offer the complete range of products, which are also the key ingredient of our award-winning 3XS Systems servers and workstations.

NVIDIA Networking QSFP Ethernet and InfiniBand network cards offer high throughput, low latency connectivity for GPU-accelerated servers and AI-optimised NVMe storage arrays, ensuring the highest possible levels of performance and GPU utilisation. The ConnectX NICs and BlueField DPUs feature advanced remote memory access and offloading technologies to eradicate bottlenecks and cope with the most demanding workflows, and are designed to operate with NVIDIA Networking switches.

A storage controller is a hardware device used to manage HDDs or SSDs in a server or storage array. While all motherboards include a basic storage controller built into the chipset, it is commonplace to add a third party storage controller if you need extra capacity or want to configure them in RAID to protect data.

A RAID controller card is similar to a Host Bus Adapter (HBA), but can also add redundancy (RAID) for the drives, help optimise performance, reduce latency, or even make smart decisions on whether to store data on an HDD or an SSD cache, depending on user needs. Since these additional tasks consume power and processing speed, RAID controllers are typically more expensive than HBAs and handle fewer devices. They are however recommended where data is critical and needs some degree of protection and in scenarios where different drive types are being used such as a single array containing SSDs for regularly accessed data and HDDs for archive purposes.

A network card is designed to connect a laptop, PC, workstation or server to a network, enabling communication with other internal users via network switches or access points; and the outside world via a router.

These cards are designed for an internal PCIe slot of a system, feature RJ45 ports and will provide wired connectivity based on Ethernet at speeds up to 10Gb/s.

Data cables are an essential part of any PC build, connecting internal components or external devices, allowing transfer of data and power.

These SAS cables provide a data connection from the motherboard to SAS HDDs and SSDs.

A network card is designed to connect a laptop, PC, workstation or server to a network, enabling communication with other internal users via network switches or access points; and the outside world via a router.

These cards are designed for an internal PCIe slot of a system, feature small form factor pluggable (SFP) ports and will provide wired connectivity based on Ethernet at speeds up to 100Gb/s.